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The effects of the Chernobyl accident in Belarus were dramatic: about 50,000 km 2 (or about a quarter of the territory of Belarus) formerly populated by 2.2 million people (or a fifth of the Belarusian population) now require permanent radioactive monitoring (after receiving doses over 37 kBq/m 2 of caesium-137). 135,000 persons were ...
A large part of the territory of Belarus became the General District Belarus within the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Nazi Germany imposed a brutal regime, deporting some 380,000 people for slave labour , and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more. 800,000 Belarusian Jews (about 90 percent of the Jewish population) were killed during the ...
In July 1917, a congress of Belarusian organizations and parties was held, instead of the BNC, the Central Rada of Belarusian Organizations was created, reorganized into the Great Belarusian Rada. BNR postcard. On December 5, 1917, the First All-Belarusian Congress began its work, at which issues of Belarusian statehood were discussed.
The name Belarus is closely related with the term Belaya Rus', i.e., White Rus'. [15] There are several claims to the origin of the name White Rus'. [16] An ethno-religious theory suggests that the name used to describe the part of old Ruthenian lands within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that had been populated mostly by Slavs who had been Christianized early, as opposed to Black Ruthenia ...
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko.The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
Common English country name: Belarus; Official English country name: The Republic of Belarus; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Belarusian; Demonym(s): Etymology: Name of Belarus; International rankings of Belarus; ISO country codes: BY, BLR, 112; ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:BY; Internet country code top-level domain: .by
Simple English; Slovenčina; Slovenščina; ... Pages in category "History of Belarus" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
History of Belarus; Prehistory; Early Slavs; Middle ages; Kievan Rus' Principality of Polotsk; Principality of Turov; Golden Horde; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Early Modern; Early elective monarchy (1569–1648) Deluge and decline (1648–1764) Three partitions (1764–95) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth